HLS Language Access Program Interpreter Training Friday, October 16th, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. EST Join us for a virtual interpreter training! The HLS Language Access Program (“LAP”) helps connect volunteer interpreters and translators with the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and other clinical programs at Harvard Law School. Volunteers assist with case meetings,…
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On September 25, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and the HLS Immigration Project (“HIP) submitted a public comment opposing a proposed rule which would alter the handling of appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) and, ultimately, undermine the rights of immigrants. The proposed rule would enact a number of troubling changes, including…
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Philip Torrey, Director of the Harvard Crimmigration Clinic and Managing Attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, has received a 2019-2020 Dean’s Award for Excellence. We are so proud of Phil for this incredible achievement and we are lucky to have him as part of our team at the Program. Please join us…
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Our Program mourns the recent loss of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Ginsburg was a champion of human rights and we are forever grateful for her service. We echo the words of Harvard Law School Dean John Manning, who stated that Justice Ginsburg’s “powerful and unyielding commitment to the rule of law and…
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Para leer esta historia en español, haz un clic aquí. I have never told my story. I have never found the “right time” but that all changes today. Oftentimes, I feel invisible to the world. I feel like I need to hide who I am in fear of rejection and loss of opportunities. It…
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We at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program are deeply disappointed in the recent decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lifting the injunction that prevented the Trump administration from moving forward with the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for recipients from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan. The termination of TPS, if…
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On August 27, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the appeal of Kenia Martinez-Mejia, a woman from El Salvador who came to the United States after fleeing gender-based and gang violence. Clinical students Benjamin Antillon Fernandez ’21 and Madeline Kane ’21 worked on an amicus brief submitted by the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program on October 25, 2019.…
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Professor Deborah Anker: The History and Future of Gender Asylum Law and Recognition of Domestic Violence as a Basis for Protection in the United States Human Rights Magazine, April 2020 This article, featured in the April issue of the American Bar Association’s Human Rights Magazine, discusses the past and current state of gender asylum law.…
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Mason Kortz ’14, of the HLS Cyberlaw Clinic, discusses the amicus brief his clinic submitted on behalf of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program regarding device searches at the U.S. border.
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